Smith has worked as a professional potter since 1988. Like Blount, their work is on display in the NAC. 23 and 24, respectively, in Aleshire Theater. Mahn and Triscari will each give a presentation of their work at 11 a.m. ![]() Mahn and Triscari will print live in the Beaver Dam, located on the second floor of the Student Center, Sept. Some of these bands include Jawbreaker, Guided by Voices, Lenny Kravitz, Lucero, WEEN, Nathaniel Rateliff, Tame Impala, Cloud Nothings, Sheer Mag, Unknown Metal Orchestra, Deerhunter, and Deer Tick. Triscari is a designer, printmaker, and illustrator who also makes posters for music clients. Some of his clients include Wilco, Elysian Brewing, The Melvins, WEEN, Kitchen Dwellers, Montana Skatepark Association, Billy Strings, Umphrey’s McGee, Pigeons Playing Ping Pong, Andrew Bird, and Goose. His true passion is working directly with the bands he idolized as a child. Mahn is a printmaker and illustrator whose clients range from pizzerias to film festivals and from newspapers to breweries. He will also give a presentation of his work Sept. He will print live in the Northwest Arts Center (NAC), located on the lower level of the Gordon B. His work explores questions of race and identity and the stories we tell ourselves about living in America. He makes posters and books using antique printing presses and wood and metal type. “The event includes something that will appeal to the artist in everyone.”īlount is a designer, letterpress printer, and maker who loves type, teaching, and putting ink on paper. “Nowhere else in North Dakota can you see and work so closely with such a wide variety of artists who are willing to share their talents and experiences,” said Laurie Geller, vice president for academic affairs and NOTSTOCK co-organizer. The six featured guest artists include Ben Blount of Evanston, Illinois Max Mahn of Missoula, Montana Joe Triscari of Denver, Colorado Tama Smith of Beach Joe Davis of Minneapolis, Minnesota and Tom Brosseau of Grand Forks. This year’s festivities will feature six guest artists as well as art, music, and other creative opportunities provided by Minot State students, faculty, and staff, and local artists and musicians. A full list of events and locations can be found at. ![]() All events, except the Friday night concert, take place on the MSU campus and are free and open to the public. ![]() In its 14th year, Minot State’s annual live, signature arts event celebrates three days of printmaking, poetry, music, ceramics, theater, and broadcasting and features three special art exhibits. – After a pandemic pause in 2020, NOTSTOCK returns with an amazing lineup of guests and activities for the community to participate in the arts Sept.
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![]() Rama, trapped in a scared couple’s apartment, hides an injured friend in a crawl space and tries to stay still and quiet while some guy stabs a wall with a machete. Rama, trapped in an apartment, makes a bomb out of a gas can and a refrigerator. The Raid isn’t a big-idea movie, but all the little ideas in it are amazing. He doesn’t want to make things easy for himself. ![]() In the movie’s best fight scene, he fights two different guys, calmly accepting the longer odds just because that’s the kind of sporting killer he is. Takes away the rush.” Mad Dog is an evil character, but he likes fighting so much, and he’s so good at it, that we, the audience, end up liking him anyway. And when he does fight, he always makes a point to put down his gun first: “I never really liked using these. Ruhian is Mad Dog, the boss’ main henchman, introduced by the police sergeant as “a maniac of feet and fists that would tear down walls for his boss.” The movie holds off on showing Ruhian fighting, almost like he’s the shark from Jaws. That distinction belongs to Yayan Ruhian, back from Merantau and now playing a much nastier character. As a screen fighter, Uwais is an all-time great, a human blur who seems reluctant to fight but who can also believably leg-sweep a guy and then shoot him in the head the second he falls.īut Uwais isn’t even the best screen fighter in the movie. And he’s even better at fighting those guys. He’s got an expressive face, and he can communicate the feeling of knowing that four dudes with machetes are about to run at you, that you’re going to have to kill all of them. Uwais wasn’t a trained actor, but the beauty of The Raid is that he doesn’t have to be. ![]() He’s young, innocent, fresh-faced, and you can tell that he wants to get out, to see his pregnant wife again. Uwais stars as Rama, the lead, and he’s perfect. So he rests his gun on the guy’s shoulder, goes to his desk, pulls out a hammer, and beats him to death. Pushers, gangs, killers-they all respect him like a god.” And we see that crime lord, in his habitat, methodically murdering four men, shooting all of them in the head while they’re kneeling on plastic on his office floor. A bunch of cops huddle in the back of a van, their shiny black helmets making them look weirdly like cockroaches, as their sergeant tells them about their target: “This man has become something of a legend in the underworld. The Raid is a movie that turns simplicity into a glorious virtue. And the faster, cheaper thing turned out to be the best thing he possibly could’ve made. Ennis wanted to make a grander, more expansive crime saga called Berandal, but he couldn’t get the budget together, so he had to make something faster and cheaper. The Raid, which turned out to be essentially the feature-length version of that one fight, was not the plan. And a scene like the bit in Merantau where Uwais and the older, smaller Yayan Ruhian slug it out in an elevator fit beautifully into that context. Screen fights were drawing on different disciplines and, thanks to MMA, the intermingling of those disciplines. Merantau came out at the end of a decade when the art of filming fight scenes was growing around the world, with different filmmakers from different countries putting their own spins on it. It’s all speed and inventiveness and brutal, brutal impact, and it works on screen. Nobody had really seen silat in an action movie before, but it’s a martial art that needed to be caught on film. The fights in Merantau were just staggering. Like those movies, it’s about a rural kid who comes to a big city and finds himself fighting a whole criminal network. He cast Uwais in Merantau, a very good 2009 movie that worked as a sort of Indonesian version of The Way Of The Dragon or Ong-Bak. He met Iko Uwais, a young martial artist who was working as a delivery driver and who looked good on camera. His wife’s family was from there, so he settled in. He packed up his family and moved to Jakarta. Eventually, he got hired to direct a documentary about pencak silat, a centuries-old Indonesian martial art built around the idea of full-body combat, of using whatever was available. He’d directed one unreleased independent movie, and he was working office jobs. In Wales, Evans’ movie career wasn’t really getting anywhere. The Raid was the brainchild of Gareth Evans, an action-movie fan and aspiring filmmaker from Wales. ![]() In 2019, Squeezelite has been ported to the ESP32 WiFi/BT chipset and works on WROVER and ESP-A1S module or any board that includes an ESP32 and 4MB of SRAM (e.g. In 2012, work began on Squeezelite, a cross-platform, headless, LMS client that supports playback synchronization, gapless playback, direct streaming (for use with Spotify, etc.), and playback at various sampling rates. At this time, SqueezeSlave is incompatible with Logitech's Spotify plugin due to a lack of support for 'direct streaming'. SqueezeSlave is designed to be run on a server connected to an amplifier/speakers, and can be controlled through the standard Logitech Media Server web interface. A third player, SqueezeSlave, is also available, which operates similarly but without any display. ![]() There is also a free software emulator version of the Squeezebox, called Softsqueeze, which is written in Java and can be run easily as an applet inside a web page. ![]() ![]() Written in Lua, it is also open-source software and sees regular updates through Logitech's SVN releases. SqueezePlay is based on SqueezeOS, the operating system that drives the hardware devices Squeezebox Duet, Radio and Touch. SqueezeAMP, a free open source hardware player. The Raspberry PI, using the piCorePlayer streams from LMS and in some cases LMS is run on the Raspberry PI too. Recently the O2 Joggler has proven a popular device for running Logitech's open source SqueezePlay software, providing a similar interface to the Squeezebox Touch on a 7" display. In late 2015 support was added via a plugin to use Google's Chromecast Audio device as a headless player which can then be connected to any audio system or powered speakers. Chumby devices also support streaming music from a Logitech Media Server, as does the Rio Receiver when running replacement software to emulate the SliMP3 device, although it is limited to modest bitrates (<128kps). Logitech Media Server also works with networked music players, such as the Roku SoundBridge M1001, although Logitech does not officially support these competing products. Logitech discontinued their hardware players in 2012. Logitech's own Squeezebox hardware players existed in a variety of configurations, offering wired and wireless Ethernet, analog and digital audio outputs, touchscreen interfaces and a variety of remote controlled options. While no longer distributed in conjunction with any Logitech hardware product, LMS continues to be developed.Ĭompatible players Hardware Logitech Media Server is free software, released under the terms of the GNU General Public License. Logitech Media Server supports grouping clients in order to synchronize playback among all clients within a group. Plugins from Logitech and third-party sources are also supported, allowing additional functionality to be added, and there is integration with Logitech's online service. It can stream to both software and hardware receivers, including the various Squeezebox models, as well as any media player capable of playing MP3 streams. It supports audio formats including MP3, FLAC, WAV, Ogg, Opus, and AAC, as well as transcoding. The software is designed for streaming music over a network, allowing users to play their music collections from virtually anywhere there is an Internet connection. Logitech Media Server (formerly SlimServer, SqueezeCenter and Squeezebox Server) is a streaming audio server supported by Logitech (formerly Slim Devices), developed in particular to support their Squeezebox range of digital audio receivers. ![]() Yet, his xwOBA and xwOBACON, which are largely and entirely driven by a combination of exit velocity and launch angle, respectively, are, if not elite, almost there. He is not pulling off any kind of plate discipline wizardry. Nor is he hitting the ball high, or even high enough to get good outcomes. Rosario is not, in aggregate, hitting the ball hard. 500, 23rd among the 154 players with as many or more batted balls as he has, and slightly above the foursome of Juan Soto, Byron Buxton, Luis Robert Jr., and teammate Ronald Acuña Jr.įriends, I am here to tell you that leaving aside the facts that A) it’s baseball and B) it’s a very small sample of baseball from which the above is drawn, as the title says, this makes no sense. 400, currently in the 86th percentile among that same set of regulars, per Statcast, but also.
![]() (Olivier Douliery/AFP via Getty Images)īiden won the White House in part because the public saw him as more qualified than former President Donald Trump to address the pandemic. adults approved of the economic aid package. A year ago, optimism was in the air President Joe Biden speaks to reporters in the White House Rose Garden in March 2021, a day after signing the $1.9 billion American Rescue Plan into law. ![]() Amid these criticisms, a growing share of Americans appear ready to move on to a new normal, even as the exact contours of that new normal are hard to discern. A majority of Americans now give Biden negative marks for his handling of the outbreak, and ratings for other government leaders and public health officials have tumbled. And thorny new societal problems have emerged, including alarming increases in murder and fatal drug overdose rates that may be linked to the upheaval caused by the pandemic.įor the public, the sense of optimism that the country might be turning the corner – evident in surveys shortly after President Joe Biden took office and as vaccines became widely available – has given way to weariness and frustration. The nation’s political fractures are reflected in near-daily disputes over mask and vaccine rules. The economic recovery has been uneven, with wage gains for many workers offset by the highest inflation rate in four decades and the labor market roiled by the Great Resignation. The staggering death toll of the virus continues to rise, with nearly as many Americans lost in the pandemic’s second year as in the first, despite the widespread availability of vaccines. “I realized that no matter how much time we think we have at the end of the day, what I came to appreciate was that we simply don’t spend enough quality time with our families,” says Tomislav.The landscape in other ways remains unsettled. In a household where four generations live together, Tomislav captured scenes of play, family celebrations, sharing, exploring and learning new skills. He turned his lenses from the outside world to capture photos of his own family with a loving eye. But he discovered that in times like this, the most valuable images can be found closer to home. ![]() As we question whether we will ever go back to what we once knew to be “normal”, its worth taken a step back to see how we can build on what we have learned to build back a better world for children.Īs a journalist, UNICEF photographer Tomislav Georgiev was one of the rare professionals with a permit to go out during the curfews and capture images of the deserted streets of the capital. ![]() Despite the ongoing threat, countries around the world are starting to lift restrictions. Lockdowns and curfews to contain the spread of the virus impacted the way children learn, the way their families earn a living, and how safe they feel in their homes and communities. The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic is of a scale most people alive today have never seen. 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Creates a comfortable wearing experience. ![]() My mother said that Hero then walked alongside the coach looking in each window for his prey. “Running for his life, Newton barely made it aboard the train in one of the coaches. Hero tried to tip the wagon over on top of him. “My mother was 14 at the time and since the train happened to be next to the circus lot that day, she had a good view of Newton (Hero’s trainer) being chased under a wagon and barely escaping. William Buckles Woodcock Jr., an elephant trainer who says in a column that his family owned the circus, has written about the incident. The enraged elephant tried to crush Newton as well but it was a snowy day and the muddy ground saved the trainer. He then raged toward the stunned trainer, and bit (his tusks had been removed) and stomped two ponies that were in the way, killing both. Hero picked him up and tossed him 30 feet. Newton, allegedly drunk thanks to some Brookings bootleggers, reportedly flogged the giant beast. Hero may also have been feeling, well, a tad randy.Įither way, he was in no mood to be messed with. By all accounts I have heard and read, Hero was weary of abuse and ill-treatment at the hands of his trainer, Henry Newton. Hero the Elephant (seen above in an image from Buckles Blog ) was a 9-foot-tall, 5-ton Asian elephant and a featured performer in the circus. Jimmy, who was around 20, was there when an elephant, and all hell, broke loose. On May 14, 1916, the Orton Brothers Circus came to town. ![]() ![]() Jimmy grew up in and around Elkton, a small Brookings County town near the Minnesota state line. Jimmy had one claim to fame: He was one of the few people who had fired shots at a rogue elephant rampaging through South Dakota. He was a smiling Irishman who loved a good story, knew his way around a deck of cards and cherished his wife Sadie. Jimmy was a kind man, funny, wise and quick with a dime when kids appreciated such a gift. My great-uncle Jimmy Lavin was involved, as has been passed down in my family lore. and Barnum & Bailey ceased using elephants in “The Greatest Show on Earth” a few years ago, which made me think of South Dakota’s lone elephant hunt. The lawsuit claims physical and emotional injury and distress.Ringling Bros. Yesterday, the group Animal Rights Hawaii and four people who witnessed the rampage sued the elephant's keeper and owner, the circus, the promoter, the city and the state of Hawaii. "They said it would go back to Richmond and be put out to pasture." "We asked what would happen to the elephant" after the Altoona circus incident, Grace said. Tyke was owned by John Cuneo Jr., president of Hawthorn Corp., which operates an animal-training farm near Richmond, Ill. "It was a mistake for Tyke to be presented in a circus," he said.Īfter the circus leased Tyke last year, she charged through an entryway and ripped away part of a wall when someone walked behind her during a show in Altoona, and bolted from a performance in Harrisburg.Īfter the April 1993 incident, circus officials told Pennsylvania animal-rights activists that Tyke, 21 years old, would be retired, Scott Grace, president of the Altoona chapter of the Humane Society of the U.S., said yesterday. Hawaii state officials said an examination showed no illness that would explain her violent behavior.Ĭircus International owner Ed Migley said here yesterday that the elephant "had all the tendencies of a killer." The elephant barreled down a city street before being killed by police gunfire. Tyke, a 9,000-pound African elephant, crushed trainer Allan Campbell at Saturday's Circus International Show in Honolulu when he came to the aid of a groom who had upset the elephant by walking behind her. An elephant that killed her trainer in Hawaii had gone on a similar rampage in Altoona, Pa., and bolted from a circus tent in Harrisburg, Pa. |
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